After hearing sheepys sexy voice on radio 4 this morning (had to have a lie down afterwards) I heard someone suggest he should listen to Audio books in order to make him nod off. Does anyone have any soporific suggestions to help the sheep in his quest for snoredom. My husband came up with the first suggestion. "The brief history of everything" by Bill Bryson. He had it playing in his car but kept feeling his eyes drooping everytime he played it. He had to take it out in the end. He never managed to finish it because he would drop off after the second sentence.

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I've read that Bill Bryson and it's great !..Perhaps Bill himself can record just for little ole me an audio version. I am hoping that Ms Trollpe will take me up on my invitation to send me her entire portfolio ! []

Perhaps Chris can record for me an audo version of his Naked Science book ?

Hugs ya

Sheepyxx

ps: Oh My !..I just played the podccast ...doesn't it always make you cringe when you hear your own voice !! ?

Neil, I heard you as well and your broadcast was so good, thatI have just used the BBC's "listen again" facility.

TNS has a sexy voiced sheepy

Also why not have an audio book of sheep husbandry. I agree with you about Radio 4 and later on the World Service.

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Rosalind Franklin was my first cousin and one my life's main regrets is that I never met this brilliant and beautiful lady. She discovered the Single DNA Helix in 1953, then it was taken by Wilkins without her knowledge or agreeement.

The time actually allotted to me was used up by the main guest who encroached on my designated slot and I found my self afterwards wishing that I had said things so much differently. You don't of course have any rehearsals.

I was on my best behaviour but 15mg of Nitrazepam the night before tens to quieten one down !!!

ps: Oh My !..I just played the podccast ...doesn't it always make you cringe when you hear your own voice !! ?

Well I thought you sounded terrible! [] Like one of these weirdos they have on Radio 4 []! Is Joanna a big trollop?

Maybe and maybe not but Joanna Trollope is related to the author Anthony Trollope as he is her gt gt gt grandad

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Rosalind Franklin was my first cousin and one my life's main regrets is that I never met this brilliant and beautiful lady. She discovered the Single DNA Helix in 1953, then it was taken by Wilkins without her knowledge or agreeement.

I thought Sheepy was chatting up the presenter, was she sexy or just another Trollope? Sheepy could be a radio 4 presenter. Did you ask if they had any vacancies?

LOL..Yes, yes I did !!..and I have sent them a follow up email already to ask if they have anything suitable !...I imagine ' toilet cleaner and ' bum wiper ' might be the only response I get ! []

The presenter was Clare Balding !..that conjures up many a nice piccy !...she's that horsey sporty lass !!

Clare Balding was a horse rider once and her brother Andrew's a trainer (horses) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Balding [Links inactive - To make links active and clickable, login or click here to register]

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Rosalind Franklin was my first cousin and one my life's main regrets is that I never met this brilliant and beautiful lady. She discovered the Single DNA Helix in 1953, then it was taken by Wilkins without her knowledge or agreeement.

Car maintenance, I did suggest Sheep husbandry and Neil liked the idea, I was joking.

The encyclopedia Brittanica or a history of somewhere. I don't know

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Rosalind Franklin was my first cousin and one my life's main regrets is that I never met this brilliant and beautiful lady. She discovered the Single DNA Helix in 1953, then it was taken by Wilkins without her knowledge or agreeement.

What about Steve Davis the snooker player. Has there ever been a book about him? He was really boring. Clement Floyd reading the phone book would be good. My History teacher was really dull. I hit my head really hard on the desk once because I fell asleep suddenly during some dictation in his lesson. It didn't half hurt!

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Give a man a fire and he is warm for a day, set a man on fire and he is warm for the rest of his life.

I always start to nod off while listening to one of Stephen Frys podcasts, you can download them from the itunes shop for free. I normally can't listen to anything when trying to go to sleep, as I always start paying attention to it, but this is OK. There must be loads of really boring podcasts on itunes, and there are loads of sciencey lectures on itunes university too; quantum physics might work.

How about he checks on the BBC Shop site for audio books, theydo good ones or http://www.amazon.co.uk [Links inactive - To make links active and clickable, login or click here to register] or his library to borrow some audio tapes/CDs etc

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Rosalind Franklin was my first cousin and one my life's main regrets is that I never met this brilliant and beautiful lady. She discovered the Single DNA Helix in 1953, then it was taken by Wilkins without her knowledge or agreeement.

On a bit of a tangent - my husband likes to listen to the radio to get himself to sleep, but I need absolute quiet. So I got him a 'soundasleep pillow' for christmas. Its a normal pillow with a little speaker embedded in it and a wire that plugs into the headphone socket of ipods etc. Its fantastic! He can hear the radio perfectly while I can't hear a thing. He sets his ipod to switch off after a certain time and we're away. [|)]zzzzzzzz